Here in Belgium we also have our name-day : we call it our "feestdag" ! Until at least the 60ths or even later , every name must have a relation to a name of a saint on the Catholic calendar ! Modern names like we have now , were not allowed !!! I was so unlucky to be born on the French-talking part of my country , so they did not even accept that my dad wanted to give me the name of a Flemish saint !! It was supposed to be "Lutgart" , but they wrote it down in French , as "Lutgarde"(I hate this name !!) . But everybody calles me Lut !!
My name-day is on June 16 !!